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In Reply to: RE: You need to set this by ear. posted by AbeCollins on September 06, 2010 at 18:51:25
Parallel to the platter (for starters) and you should be real close. Leave it there for awhile while it breaks in unless it sounds really bad which I doubt. Then you may want to experiment with MINOR moves up or down.
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Since I can't precisely "see" the SRA at the edge of the stylus cut anyway and it all comes down to how it sounds, I'll put the tonearm back to parallel and start from there.
The retipped cartridge is sounding pretty nice but has fewer than 10 hours on it. I'll play more records before getting all critical and precise on the VTA/SRA by ear. ;-)
Howdy Abe,
SRA/VTA is more critical with the exotic stylus profiles (like you have now). It's absolutely worth farting around with VTA/SRA by ear - there will be a sweet spot where all hell breaks loose. 8-)
I use a deck of playing cards to set my VTA repeatably (having an old school tone arm without a micro-adjustable VTA function). One card plus or minus can make or break the response of an exotic stylus.
Good luck,
Pete
....I'll pay close attention to the VTA by ear once I have a few more hours on the stylus. VTA is pretty easy to adjust by turning a collar on the Technics SL1200mk2
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